ALBERT
HURWIT
Symphony No.1
"Remembrance"
KLEZMER
BAND
BULGARIAN
NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Michael Lankester
***
WORLD
PREMIERE RECORDING ***
$14.95 ~ MS1134
Albert
Hurwit has won the
2009 AMERICAN COMPOSER COMPETITION,
having been selected
from
a group of 124 composers.
"In
2006, Albert Hurwit's Symphony No.1 was the Most Requested Symphony
Written by a Living Composer on Beethoven Radio 'The World's Classical
Radio Station.' Many composers fail to understand their audience and write music
that is inaccessible to the listener. Hurwit has written a symphony that speaks
to each individual listener directly from his heart. Symphony No.1 'Remembrance'
is a favorite of ours and the worldwide audience at Beethoven.com." BEETHOVEN
RADIO, JANUARY 2007
"Strikingly
beautiful...glorious and affecting main theme led by a solo violin soaring
ever higher in even more luxuriant waves. The whirling energy [of Movement 4]
conveys the anticipation and excitement of arrival in America...Lankester draws
committed and sumptuous playing from the Bulgarian orchestra" GRAMOPHONE,
SEPTEMBER 2005
"Hurwit
[has the ability to create] an immediately memorable melody...The music is
extremely pretty and very well orchestrated...Excellent sound. FANFARE,
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005
"A
moving and emotional world premiere...The symphony is written in a very
direct style...which makes it all the more affecting and emotional in effect.
The performance and sound could not be faulted. Let’s hope some American
orchestras put Mr. Hurwit’s affecting symphony on their concert programs;
I’m sure it would be well-accepted."
AUDIOPHILE
AUDITION, SEPTEMBER 2005
"A
luminous score...'Remembrance' strikes universal chord...Hurwit
shows considerable skill transforming his themes and using them cyclically to
unify a large scale work" ATLANTA
AUDIO SOCIETY, JUNE 2005
